Put down those Oreos!!!

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My love affair with packaged cookies and potato chips needs to end ASAP. Here’s the scoop (don’t shoot the messenger):

• Ultraprocessed foods (think: anything that comes in a crinkly bag and has an ingredient list longer than your last grocery receipt) are officially bad news for your health.

• Scientists looked at data from over 8 million people (so, not just Dr. Rhodes opinion), and found that every extra 3.5 ounces of this stuff you eat a day (that’s like one big cookie or a snack-size bag of chips) bumps up your risk of:

  • High blood pressure by 14.5% (yikes)

  • Heart problems by 5.9%

  • Cancer by 1.2%

  • Digestive issues by a whopping 19.5%

• Bonus risks: obesity, diabetes, and even mental health issues like depression and anxiety. So basically, your snacks are coming for you from at all angles.

• Why? These foods are loaded with sugar, salt, and enough weird additives to make your gut bacteria want to move out.

• The experts are saying we should stick to foods our grandparents would recognize—think fruits, veggies, and stuff that doesn’t need a chemistry degree to understand. Mediterranean or DASH diets are the gold stars here.

Moral of the story: drop the Oreos, grab a handful of nuts and pretend you’re on a beach in Greece.

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Before successfully co-founding Compete for Causes, Adam, Andre and Jeff started Compete for Calories. After eating too many lava cakes, they decided to get in shape instead.

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